Computational Research in Psychology and Linguistics
- Speaker: Dr Tao Gong
(Professor and Head of Ancient DNA Lab
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Computational Research in Psychology and Linguistics) - Overview:
In this talk, I review two computational methods used in psychology and linguistics, namely data science and computational modeling. For the data science method, I introduce two examples of using it in psychology research: studying the influence of individual differences in reading behaviors as gauged by eye-tracking measures, and extracting the correlation between social media like Facebook languages and social media users psychological status like satisfaction with life. For the computational modeling approach, I introduce one example of using agent-based model to study the relative importance of perceptual constraints on colors and socio-cultural transmissions to the universality of linguistic color categorization across languages. These examples demonstrate the multidisciplinary nature of psychology and linguistics research.
- Date: 05 November 2018 (Monday)
